Mounting for brake gears



Oct; 20, 1925.

s. J. sTRlD MOUNTING FOR IBRAKE GEARS Filed Aug, 5. 1.925

UNITED sr Afrit-S` i l 1,557,735 y'P AT OFFICE- SVEN .IULIUs swimmer CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AssICrN'oia` fro FRED "IaATIIEi/vaior i CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; u y

Y MCUNTING Foe BRAKE GEAns. i 4

Applieation 1aed August 5, 1925. l seria; No.-4s`,425.

To @ZZ inkom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, SVEN JULIUS STRID, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Mounting for Brake Gears, of which the Pfollowing is afull, clear, and exact description,

such as will enableV others skilled in the art to make and use the same. Y

My present invention relates to means for mounting a brake geardevice and particularly to a structure that isadapted to support ythe brake gearing in a` pendent manner from the end-sill of the car and also. toprovide for the'bracing of the mounting structure again-st theV pull of the take-upfchain which ris exerted longitudinally of the car. 'Among the several objects of the present invention are thev provision of a `compact structure that may be readily secured to the end portion or sill of a railway car and is thereby adapted to support .the brake gear ing mechanism in a pendent mannerin a plane belowvthe end-sill .and 'to brace the same so that the pull ofthe brake-chain Vwill be effective by said supporting strucf' lure, all of which mayV be conveniently handled by the mechanicand without alter y framing.

In carrying out my invention and in order to accomplish the4 divers objects thereof, I prefer to employ a structure substantially ing the structure of the carl body or-un'deras hereinafter described and as illustrated The drawings disclose a typical or `preferred embodiment of my invention, and I have employed similar reference characters to designate the samel parts`wherever( they appear throughout the several views.

In the rst instance, the end-sill of the car comprises a channel beam the web 5 of which is vertically disposed and the top and upwardly against the webV of the lsill asf" shown in d-o-tted lines in Figure 3 to lprovide a vertical Nwall extending above the sill. The gearing is preferably of thetype disclosed in United States LettersP-atent Nio.

1,508,564, granted September 16, 19211, tot.;

Fred'h/Iathews, although it will be understood thatv other typesoffgearingfmay be employed in lieu thereof.y 1 In the present structure jthemiolunting lcomprises two' castingsythe lower-or lbot-3.

tomI castingconsisting of a horizontalplate 11 `having. upwardly'extending vend:iian'ges 12 and intermediate said flanges Ythe` plate is provided with a bearing'fto receive" the winding or wheel-shaft 13, byk thej rotationw of whichy the gearing is'y operated' to apply the brakes. 'One ofthe gear memberspis mounted upon the. lower` portion this bottomflanges- 6 and 7 respectively vproject outwardly fromthe en'd of the `carsofasto lpermit an angle-bar 8 to be secured tothe inner surface of the web of the sill to which shaft 13, :and extending, inwardly :and in-,

clinedfdownwardly-for a short distance off/.j

able mounting v.of another of the gear members.

rlhe top casting of the mounting structure comprises a horizontal plate 15 having depending flanges 16 at its ends that extend outside the flanges 12 ofthe lbottom casting and are riveted or otherwise suitably parallel ,with each other. in vertically f spaced planes. The'plate 15 is extended inwardly along its rear portion 15a to a point beyond therear edge of the bottom plate 11, or to about the vertical plane ofthe web 5 of .the sill (Fig. 3) and above this rearl portion 152L therey is provided ,an integrally formedshelf 17. .Bracingside-wallslS eX- tend from' theend edges of'this shelf 1 7V y downwards to the plate 15 and are inclinedl downward and outward toward the outer f edges of said plate. Intermediate gussets 19 connect the shelf with the plate. This shelf 17 if of the same or of greater width than the bottom flange 7 of the endsill so that,

it may be positioned against the lower surface of said flanges as shown in Figure 3 of the drawings and it is riveted or otherwise suitably secured thereto.

The pull on the brake-gear against the mounting is from the right in Fig. 3 and in order yto provide ample bracing to resist this transverse stress on the mounting, I have extended the intermediate gussets 19 inwardly under the sill, and bac-k of the sill I have widened them in a verticaldirection, so thatrectangular vertical walls 20, 2O,Y are'provided that are disposed parallel with each other and extend upwardly to the under surface of the horizontal member of the angle-bar 8. "Ihe upper edges of the walls 20 are integrally connected by a horizontal transverse wall 21, while the vertical edges of the wallsf20 nearest the sill are connected by a vertical transverse wall 22 that fits against the adjacent vertical surface of the angle bar 8. rIhus there'is formed a box-like extension of plate 15 at the r-ear or inner portion of the top casting, which boxlike structure fits into the corner of the angle-bar 8 and is secured thereto by rivets or other elements that connect the top wall sist of a horizontal plate having lateral endv flanges that are connected to each other', said bottom casting having a bracket extending froml the same intermediate its ends, and said top casting having a box-like extension weaves projecting above its horizontal plate whereby'the same is fitted pendant upon the endsill with said extension disposed back of the sill and vertically alongside the same.

2. The combination with a car end-sill formed from a channel-beam positioned with its flanges extended outwardly, and a horizontal element projecting from the rear face of said sill, of a brake-gear mounting consisting of a horizontal bottom plate having an extension, a horizontal top plate connected to said bottom plate andV having a portion extended to overhang the bottom plate extension, said plates and extensions affording accommodations for the gearing mechanism and positioned below and .connected to the end-sill, and a box-like structure arisingfrom the inner portion of the top plate and fitting the angle formed at the juncture of said horizontal element and said channel beam and secured toA one of said parts. f v

3. The combination with a car end-sill of channel section, and a horizontal element secured to and projecting from the plain .sideY of said sill, of a brake gear mounting consisting of al horizontal top-plate extended upon opposite .sides of the vertical'plane of the sill, a shelf above; and integral with and secured to the lower flange of said sill, a box-like structure integral with said-plate and extended above said shelf and secured to said horizontal element, and a horizontal bottoni plate spaced from and connected to said top plate and provided with an extension terminating below said box-like structure. f

Signed at Chicago, in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, thisTth day of July,

svEN JULiUs srnin. 

